Thursday, July 6, 2017
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts president Deborah Spar has rejected a request, supported by a number of well-known artists and scholars, to cancel upcoming performances by a troupe un…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:55PMCirque du Soleil and Blue Man Group – creative ensembles that grew from local fame as offbeat entertainment alternatives into multicultural franchises – announced a merger toda…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:30PMWednesday, July 5, 2017
Broadway went to the beach with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie over what for many was the Independence Day weekend, as patrons stayed away in droves following the previous week’s banne…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:57PMThree-quarters of the Tony-nominated cast of A Doll’s House, Part 2 bids farewell on July 23, including Laurie Metcalf, who won her first Tony last month playing Lucas Hnath’s up…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:33AMFriday, June 30, 2017
Less then a week after bringing home five Doras – that’s the Canadian version of the Tony Award – an immigrant troupe called Soulpepper begins a monthlong stand off Times S…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:32PMThursday, June 29, 2017
Is there ever a time when heartbreak and loss go out of “style”? Marvin’s Room opened over Christmas in 1991 at Playwrights Horizons in New York (it was originally produced…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PMPaula Vogel’s Indecent continues to look like the Broadway turnaround story of the season, as ticket sales increase daily in the aftermath of a six-week reprieve beyond the posted June…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:41PMTensions between newsroom employees and The New York Times masthead kicked into higher gear Thursday morning with the announcement of a brief work slowdown this afternoon at 3 PM local time.…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:06AMWednesday, June 28, 2017
Using words including “betrayal,” “humiliating” and “covfefe” and suggesting that management had compared them to “dogs urinating on fire hydrants,&…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:31PMEXCLUSIVE: Heartbreak Hotel, a new musical that follows Elvis Presley’s career from unknown singer to charts-busting star, will tryout this summer at the Ogunquit Playhouse, a venerabl…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:17PMTony and Oscar winner Mercedes Ruehl has signed on for Second Stage Theatre’s fall revival of Harvey Fierstein’s landmark dramedy Torch Song. Michael Urie will star as looking-f…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:01PMMonday, June 26, 2017
Glenn Close finally did say goodbye as her Sunset Boulevard revival ended on a high note, while the formerly struggling Indecent jumped over a quarter-million dollars in the wake of a last-m…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:17PMElvis Presley’s 1974 minor hit “My Boy” might serve as the alternative title for The Colonel, a film bio of the King’s Svengali-like manager, Colonel Tom Parker. The …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:30AMSunday, June 25, 2017
It’s rare enough to experience the shiver of revelation that comes in the first few minutes of a great show; rarer still to be blasted above the ordinary the second time around. That&#…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:46PMFriday, June 23, 2017
Actor Richard Topol stepped forward last night on the stage of Broadway’s Cort Theatre at the end of Indecent to share some news with the audience. A few hours earlier, producer Daryl…
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Gabe Pressman, a son of the Bronx whose tenacity and style reflected the city he covered as New York’s best-known television reporter and commentat…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:24PMThursday, June 22, 2017
It’s entirely possible that producers Scott Rudin and Sonia Friedman – who’ve brought Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan’s frequently harrowing adaptation of George Orw…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PMActors’ Equity Association today named Come From Away, A Doll's House, Part 2 and Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 as co-recipients of the union’s Extraordinary Exce…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:28PMWednesday, June 21, 2017
Smarting over protests during the Tony Awards season on behalf of casting directors seeking union recognition, Broadway theater owners and producers have fired back with threats of legal act…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:47AMEXCLUSIVE: Here’s a first look at Hello Again, the film adaptation by Tom Gustafson (Mariachi Gringo) of composer-lyricist Michael John LaChiusa's acclaimed 1994 musical. A new riff on…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMTuesday, June 20, 2017
The multi-talented stars of The Band’s Visit, several of whom also play their own instruments, have re-upped for the Broadway transfer this fall, including leads Tony Shalhoub and Katr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:10AMMonday, June 19, 2017
Donna Murphy began her turn as the eighth Dolly Levi last week, propelling the Bette Midler-led revival of Hello, Dolly! into the box-office stratosphere occupied almost exclusively by Hamil…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:17PMClive Owen is set to star in the first Broadway revival of M. Butterfly, slated to open on Broadway at the Shubert Organization’s Cort Theatre on October 26, after previews beginning O…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:31AMSaturday, June 17, 2017
As an accomplice videotaped from the audience, a lone protester charged the stage of the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park Friday night just after a Donald Trump lookalike portraying Julius …
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:43AMFriday, June 16, 2017
Steve Martin‘s next Broadway venture appears to be setting the stage for pal Amy Schumer’s Broadway debut this fall, production sources confirmed to Deadline on Friday, following…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:58PMKevin Spacey has an enduring passion for Clarence Darrow, the Chicago lawyer famed for defending the defenseless and the undefendable. Championing the causes of union “anarchists”…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:11AMThursday, June 15, 2017
EXCLUSIVE: I’m told that Steven Pasquale (Mark Fuhrman in FX’s American Crime Story: The People v. OJ Simpson; soon to be recurring on HBO’s Divorce) will return to Broadwa…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:19PMMulti-platinum recording artist Ingrid Michaelson will join the cast of Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, the epic-scale musical on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre, beginning J…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:11AMWednesday, June 14, 2017
A.R. Gurney, the playwright who in such comedies as The Dining Room, The Middle Ages and Sylvia chronicled the foibles and fantasies of the well-heeled American WASPS of which he was a quint…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:59PMEXCLUSIVE: Yesterday’s press release promoting New York Classical Theatre’s production of The Rivals, a comedy dating from 1775, promised
“It is not controversy, but comedy…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:00PMPaula Vogel’s drama Indecent, which won two Tony Awards on Sunday, announced this morning that it will close following the matinée on June 25 at the Cort Theatre after 79 performances…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:19PM 
